FC4 Installation problem

[Chris Stark]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:42 +1000, Scott N. Blackman wrote:
> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:39:30PM +1000, Scott N. Blackman wrote:

> >>I am attempting to install FC4 on a new machine which just has WindowsXP 
> >>on it (I want to dual boot).  However, I don't get very far at all.  The 
> >>DVD disk boots up and gives the usual questions,  but no FC.  At which I 
> >>hit enter for graphical installation. It loads the one file and then 
> >>initrd.img............. and then it reboots. I tried "linux noprobe" and 
> >>"linux text" but with the exact same results. The disks are good as they 
> >>have been used on different machines.  When I use "linux garbage" first, 
> >>then "linux" or "linux text". I get a bit further then
> >>
> >>IRQ11: nobody cared ...

> >>
> >>My configuration:
> >>ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe
> >>2GB DDRII 533
> >>Intel P4-531 3.0GHz PRESCOTT9(LGA775) processor
> >>2 x 200GB (JB) WD S-ATA Hard drive
> >>ATI Radeon X700 pro pci-express video
> >>19" LG 1950SSN LCD monitor
> >>LG GSA-4163B DVD+/-/RAM DUAL LAYER slave
> >>PIONEER DVR-110 DVD+/-RW DUAL LAYER master
> >>
> >>Any ideas?

> >I have only one idea and it may not be correct. When putting Linux on
> >a machine with a SATA drive I found I had to change the SATA drive
> >configuration in the BIOS. I can't remember which option I chose but
> >it would be easy to try a different option for SATA (my BIOS had
> >three) and see what happens.
> >  
> >
> The system ether has same problem or will not boot at all.  Depending 
> BIOS settings
> 
> Scott
> 

Greetings,

When the initial installation boot screen comes up, try entering some
gibberish then hit enter:  'foo <enter>'

Then hit enter again to boot normally.

If that doesn't work, reboot and try the gibberish line again, and enter
'linux pci=nosort' the second time. I have a similar system that will
only boot into Linux with the 'pci=nosort' line. If this works, you may
want to add this to your grub.conf file.

Aloha,
-- 
Chris Stark
Musician, Linux User, & Grad Student
http://chrisstark.com/